Bioinformatics meetings & conferences

2nd International Conference on Life Science & Biological Engineering (LS&BE 2013)

7-9 November, 2013 Osaka, Japan

The 2nd International Conference on Life Science & Biological Engineering (LS&BE 2013) will be held in Osaka, Japan during November 7-9, 2013. The aim objective of LS&BE 2013 is to provide a platform for researchers, engineers, academicians as well as industrial professionals from all over the world to present their research results and development activities in Networking and Digital Society. This conference provides opportunities for the delegates to exchange new ideas and application experiences face to face, to establish business or research relations and to find global partners for future collaboration.

Main Topics:

The conference theme includes, but not limited to, the following topics:

Medical and Veterinary Sciences

Biological and Biomedical Sciences

Agriculture, Forestry and Life Sciences

Biology and neuroscience

Biological Sciences (Botany, Forestry, Cell Biology, Marine Biology, Zoology)

Genetics and Human Genetics

Biochemistry and Molecular Biology

Biological and Medical Physics, Biomedical Engineering

Anatomy

Biochemistry

Computational Biology

Biology

Systems Biology

Bioscience Engineering

Genetics and Human Genetics

Microbiology Food Engineering

Nutritional Sciences

Pharmacology Physiology and Biology Health Sciences

Pharmaceutical Science

Aerobiology

Astrobiology

Building biology

Cell biology

Conservation Biology

Developmental biology

Environmental Biology

Evolutionary Biology

Marine Biology

Microbiology

Molecular Biology

Pathobiology

Structural biology

Affective neuroscience

Biobehavioral science

Biomedical science

Biochemistry

Biocomputers

Biocontrol

Biodynamics

Bioinformatics

Biology

Biomaterials

Biomechanics

Biomonitoring

Biophysics

Biopolymers

Botany

Cell biology

Contact us:

Email: lsbe@lsbe.org

NGS 2013 Manchester: Applications & Bottlenecks

5th – 6th November 2013 Manchester, United Kingdom

The aim of our NGS conferences is to address key issues being faced by laboratories that are implementing Next Generation Sequencing (NGS) into their workflows. Whilst NGS is a very powerful technology that holds the promise of unlocking the secrets of DNA sequences on a large scale, its implementation has not been as smooth as anticipated.

Our previous co-organized event in this area – NGS2013 Oxford Workshop & Symposium – focussed on bioinformatics, but with the current NGS conference in Manchester we want to take the theme a step further by broadening the discussion areas

Whether your laboratory is working in the area of clinical genetics, animal, plant or microbial genetics you will be aware that there are common issues that unite researchers in all of these fields when it comes to establishing workflows for NGS. These issues which have become recognized bottlenecks across all areas of NGS based research include but are not limited to Library generation, Data analysis and Data storage. Whilst these issues are now being addressed by start-up as well as established biotech companies, they are being tackled in isolation of the entire NGS workflow.

The NGS 2013 Manchester conference will bring together leading experts from widely diverse backgrounds to tackle these issues by networking, discussing the common bottlenecks and working with biotech companies to try and mitigate these issues. We strive to keep our conferences informal and create a good personal atmosphere so as to facilitate dialogue and networking amongst all participants.

The result is an NGS conference that gather researchers from Pharma, Biotech, Hospitals and Universities who are working in areas and applications that benefit each other when discussed in the context of common NGS bottlenecks. Researchers working in the areas of micro RNA’s, Exome & Genomic sequencing, NGS panels, inherited diseases, expression analysis, viral genomics to name but a few areas can now listen to each other and find effective strategies and partners that will help in ironing out the bottlenecks.

Who should attend:

1. All NGS users, researchers and students

2. Bioinformaticians

3. NHS Labs and private companies, Pharma, Biotech and Agro Companies

Geneticists interested in the latest developments of:

• Bioinformatics

• Biomarkers

• Computational Biology

• Data Analysis

• Data interpretation

• DNA Sequencing

• Genetics/Genomics

• Infectious and inherited Diseases

• Informatics

• Molecular and Cell Biology

• Molecular Diagnostics

• Next Generation Sequencing

5th International Young Scientists School “Bioinformatics and Systems Biology” SBB-2013

23-26 June 2013 Novosibirsk, Russia

The science sections are:

1) Development biology and stem cells

2) Bioinformatics and analysis of genome sequencing data

3) Human origin and evolution. Paleogenomics

4) Analysis of genome sequencing data

Contacts

THE INSTITUTE OF CYTOLOGY AND GENETICS
The Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences
RUSSIAN FEDERATION

630090 Novosibirsk
Prospekt Lavrentyeva 10

Tel: +7(383) 363-49-80
Fax: +7(383) 333-12-78
E-mail: sbb2013@bionet.nsc.ru

2013 IEEE International Workshop on Genomic Signal Processing and Statistics (GENSIPS 2013)

November 17–19, 2013 Houston, Texas

The 2013 IEEE International Workshop on Genomic Signal Processing and Statistics (GENSIPS 2013) will be held in Houston during November 17-19, 2013. GENSIPS 2013 will provide a forum for signal processing researchers, bioinformaticians, computational biologists, biomedical engineers, and biostatisticians to exchange ideas and discuss the challenges confronting computational bioinformatics and systems biology communities due to the high modality of disparate high-throughput data, high variability of data acquisition, high dimensionality of biomedical data, and high complexity of genomics and proteomics. GENSIPS 2013 will feature prominent plenary speakers in biomedical research.

Contact

The workshop organizers may be contacted at info@gensips2013.org.

12th International Workshop on Data Mining in Bioinformatics (BIOKDD '13)

In conjunction with the 19th ACM SIGKDD International Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (KDD'13)

August 11, 2013 Chicago, Illinois

The goal of this workshop is to encourage KDD researchers to take on the numerous challenges that Bioinformatics offers. This year, the workshop will feature the theme of building network and predictive models of biological processes and diseases using complex data. This field focuses on the use of computational approaches, especially from data mining and machine learning, and the large amount and variety of biological data being generated. The goal here is to build accurate predictive or descriptive network models of biological processes and diseases. These approaches have revolutionized the new age biology by enabling novel discoveries in basic biology and diseases like cancer and diabetes, as well as the development of therapeutics.

2013 International Symposium on Biological Engineering and Natural Sciences (ISBENS)

26-28 July 2013 Bangkok, Thailand

The 2013 International Symposium on Biological Engineering and Natural Sciences (ISBENS) will take place on 26-28 July 2013 in Bangkok, Thailand. The aim of this symposium is to create a forum for academics, experts, researchers and postgraduate students to share their experience and to exchange novel ideas in the domain of biological engineering and natural sciences.

Contact Information

If you have any questions or need further information, please contact us with no hesitation.We are here to help out with more information.

Organiser:

Higher Education Forum
Address: 12-1 F., No. 129, Sec. 1, Fuxing S. Rd.,
Taipei Taiwan
Phone: 886 2 27401498
e-mail: isbens@isbens.org

BioCAS 2013--IEEE Biomedical Circuits and Systems Conference

October 31-November 2, 2013 Rotterdam, the Netherlands

At the crossroads of medicine, life sciences, physical sciences and engineering, exciting interdisciplinary research and development activities are taking place that will shape tomorrow’s healthcare and wellbeing. The IEEE Biomedical Circuits and Systems Conference (BioCAS) serves as a premier forum for these activities. It brings together researchers, designers and engineers from industry, academia and government to present and share the latest cutting-edge research results and innovative solutions for today’s complex health problems at the frontiers of biomedical engineering and circuits and systems.

International Conference on Intelligent Biology and Medicine (ICIBM 2013)

August 11-13, 2013, Nashville, Tennessee

Bioinformatics, Systems Biology and Intelligent Computing are synergistic disciplines that hold great promise for the advancement of biomedical research and development through the design of intelligent systems to solve engineering practical problems as well as translational science problems. Research and development in these areas impact science and technology, and synergies among these disciplines provide enormous potential. The International Conference on Intelligent Biology and Medicine (ICIBM) aims to provide a forum for the cross-fertilization of ideas and promotion of interdisciplinary collaborations. Keeping these objectives in mind, ICIBM solicits original contributions in the following non-exclusive lists of areas.

Bioinformatics

Functional genomics, personalized medicine, genetics and genomics, multi-dimensional data integration, next generation sequencing analysis (including algorithms, tools and data analysis), microarray based data analysis, biomedical data analysis, bio-molecular and phylogenetic databases, bio-languages, interoperability in bio-databases, bio-ontology and data mining, identification and classification of genes, sequence search and alignment, protein structure prediction and molecular simulation, molecular evolution and phylogeny, proteomics, drug discovery, drug design, bioinformatics engineering, bio-data visualization, algorithms, modeling and simulation of bio-datasets, biomarker discovery, bio-imaging, signaling and computation.

Systems Biology

Modeling and simulation of biological processes, pathways, networks, regulatory networks, pipelines, mathematical and quantitative models of cellular and multi-cellular systems, emergence of properties in complex biological systems, methods to predict biological network behavior from incomplete information, statistical modeling of biological data, prediction and validation, synthetic biological systems, high performance bio-computing, self-organization in living systems (cells, organisms, swarms, ecosystems, etc.), platforms for computational modeling of living systems (parallel, distributed, and multi-resolution simulation methods), differential, discrete and/or stochastic modeling-language frameworks, applications of systems biology towards understanding disease mechanisms, pharmaceutical drug discovery and drug target validation.

Intelligent Computing

Machine learning, data mining, knowledge discovery, pattern recognition, natural langue processing, literature mining, semantic and ontology driven biological data analysis, neural computing, kernel methods, evolutionary computing, swarm intelligence and optimization, feature selection/extraction, ensemble methods, manifold learning theory, artificial life and artificial immune systems, technology to develop artificial components, systematization methodology for intelligent systems, and scientific principles related to artificial life. 

For general questions/inquiries, please email us at icibm.list@gmail.com.

5th International Conference on Neural Computation Theory and Applications (NCTA 2013)

20 - 22 September, 2013 Vilamoura - Algarve, Portugal

NCTA is sponsored by INSTICC – Institute for Systems and Technologies of Information, Control and Communication

Scope

Neural computation and artificial neural networks have seen an explosion of interest over the last few years, and are being successfully applied across an extraordinary range of problem domains, in areas as diverse as finance, medicine, engineering, geology and physics, in problems of complex dynamics and complex behavior prediction, classification or control. Several architectures, learning strategies and algorithms have been introduced in this highly dynamic field in the last couple of decades. This conference intends to be a major forum for scientists, engineers and practitioners interested in the study, analysis, design, modeling and implementation of neural computing systems, both theoretically and in a broad range of application fields.

Conference Topics

Pattern Recognition

Industrial, financial and medical applications

Computational neuroscience

Neural network software and applications

Complex-valued neural networks

Neuroinformatics and bioinformatics

Learning paradigms and algorithms

Supervised and unsupervised learning

Adaptive architectures and mechanisms

Support Vector Machines and Applications

Complex artificial neural network based systems and dynamics

Higher level artificial neural network based intelligent systems

Bio-inspired and humanoid robotics

Artificial Emotions and Emotional Intelligence

Collective & Distributed Intelligent Systems and Dynamics

Image Processing and Artificial Vision Applications

Intelligent Artificial Perception and Neural Sensors

Modular Implementation of Artificial Neural Networks

Neural based Data Mining and Complex Information Processing

Neural Multi-agent Intelligent Systems and Applications

Self-organization and Emergence

Stability and Instability in Artificial Neural Networks

Neural Network Hardware Implementation and Applications

Neural Computation issues in Social Behaviour Emergence

Secretariat

NCTA Secretariat
Address: Av. D. Manuel I, 27A, 2º esq.
             2910-595 Setúbal - Portugal
Tel.: +351 265 100 033
Fax: +44 203 014 8638
e-mail: ncta.secretariat@insticc.org
Web: http://www.ncta.ijcci.org/

Up Close and Personalized, International Congress on Personalized Medicine

July 25-28, 2013 Paris, France

Personalized Medicine is revolutionizing the medical world. Understanding and integrating genetic and molecular information with traditional clinical knowledge is the hallmark of this transformation. At present much of the medical practice is based on standards of care derived from the epidemiologic studies of large cohorts that do not take into account the individual’s genetic, proteomic, and metabolic characteristics. Furthermore, in spite of efforts to develop data-driven, expert–based, clinical decision support systems, there are no clear and simple means to disseminate new findings into clinical practice.

Following the great success of the meeting in Florence Italy last year, the main focus of the second Up Close and Personalized Congress is to examine the essential clinical, imaging, genomic, proteomic, metabolomic, pharmacogenomic and biomarker data necessary to predict, prevent and treat major medical conditions concerning metabolism (diabetes and obesity) and cancer. As in the first meeting one of the key themes will be to explore bio-informatic tools, algorithms, decision support systems and other new platforms for disease prediction and better tailoring treatment modeling to the individual patient. Furthermore, we will discuss health policy issues such as barriers for implementing Personalized Medicine, and quality assurance.

Topics

Diabetes
Diagnostics
Health Policy
Imaging
Informatics
Obesity
Oncology

Contact Us

Please do not hesitate to contact us with any questions or queries on Up Close and Personalized – The 2nd International Congress on Personalized Medicine.

Congress Secretariat
Paragon Conventions
18 Avenue Louis-Casai
1209 Geneva, Switzerland
Tel: +41 (0) 22 5330 948
Fax: +41 (0) 22 5802 953
Email: Secretariat@upcp.org